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Windsor in Pictures: March 12, 2015
The Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Thursday. Check out the gallery. Mayor Drew Dilkens speaks during the launch of a new breast cancer awareness bus at the bus...
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Windsor and Essex County jobless rate up; highest in Canada
Once again, the Windsor-area unemployment rate is the highest in the country, but the news isn’t all bad. Although the jobless rate edged up to 9.6 per cent in February from 9.4 per cent the previous...
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Anne Jarvis: Then they could rest…
They need to find her killer, Jenny Galbraith told me more than three years after her daughter Nancy Galbraith-Quick was run down and left to die. Then they could rest. On Wednesday, more than nine...
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Weekend In Pictures: Saturday, March 14 and Sunday, March 15, 2015
The Star’s photographers had you covered on Saturday, March 14 and Sunday, March 15, 2015. Check out the photos. From left, Jessica Newman, 10, holding Zoey, Chris Lupton, holding Samson, Melanie...
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Amherstburg man second in family to win trip from Kelly Ripa show
TV personality Kelly Ripa is sending an Amherstburg family on vacation for the second time in three years. Marc DiBiase won a one-week stay at a beachfront villa in Barbados Monday on the Live with...
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Windsor in Pictures: March 16, 2015
The Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Monday. Check out the gallery. Marc DiBiase won a trip to Barbados on the morning talk show, Live! with Kelly and Michael,...
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One in seven Windsorites has Irish heritage
More than 46,000 people in Windsor and Essex County say they are Irish, according to the 2011 National Household Survey. That’s more than those who call themselves Italian, Polish, Lebanese or German....
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Oldcastle tool and mould company plans $10 million expansion
The “booming” auto industry has prompted Aalbers Tool and Mold Inc., in Oldcastle to spend $10 million on new equipment and the hiring of an additional 33 people, the company announced Tuesday. “We’re...
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Drug-dealing Lakeshore woman denounces ‘devil’ husband, implicates cops
A Lakeshore woman seeking leniency on a drug-dealing charge says her abusive ex-husband had a fetish for penis piercings, got high on his own supply, was connected with corrupt police officers — and...
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Windsor in Pictures: March 17, 2015
The Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Tuesday. Check out the gallery. Phillip Olla and Irek Kusmierczyk of Windsor-Detroit Hacking Health are pictured downtown...
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Essex firefighters battle Harrow house fire
A family of five is homeless after a blaze that started in the garage and gutted their rental home in Colchester South Wednesday. Damage is estimated at $225,000 after the fire started at around 8:30...
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Windsor in Pictures: March 18, 2015
The Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Wednesday. Check out the gallery. A funeral service for local humanitarian Frank Chauvin was held at Our Lady of Guadalupe...
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Aphria invests $1million for expansion of marijuana production
After only 3½ months of operation, Leamington’s Aphria Inc. is spending $1 million to expand its medical marijuana production. The investment is part of a two-phase expansion plan for the business that...
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Windsor in Pictures: March 19, 2015
The Windsor Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county Thursday. Check out the gallery. The fishing boat William T.R., shown Thursday, March 19, 2015, is stuck in the foot thick ice...
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City councillor wants overhaul of Economic Development Corporation, full-time...
Ward 9 Coun. Hilary Payne is taking aim at the WindsorEssex Economic Development Corporation for the self-appointed structure of its board, its use of a part-time CEO and its lack of recent results....
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Windsor In Pictures: Friday, March 20, 2015
The Star’s award-winning photographers covered the city and county on Friday, March 20, 2015. Christine Campbell performs in the Windsor Star News Cafe on Friday, March 20, 2015. (DAN JANISSE/The...
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Weekend In Pictures: Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22, 2015
The Star’s photographers covered the city and county on Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22, 2015. Check out the photos. Charlie, Peter, Erin, and Max Earls, from Kingsville, participate in the...
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Local clothing designer named a Canadian Down Syndrome Hero
Andrew Banar’s inspiring message to stay strong and rock on has earned the 23-year-old Kingsville entrepreneur the title of Canadian Down Syndrome Hero. “I am happy to be getting an award,” said Banar,...
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Kingsville man faces drug charges following traffic stop
Two people are facing drug charges following a traffic stop in Chatham Sunday night. Chatham-Kent police said an officer observed a vehicle run a stop sign on Baldoon Road near Partridge Crescent...
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Kingsville man faces charges after allegedly fleeing crash scene
A Kingsville motorist is facing numerous charges after he allegedly fled the scene of a collision with another vehicle on Saturday night. Jacob Dyck, 61, is accused of failing to stop at the scene of...
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